Chiaroscuro II @ Jalan Bedara

The answer is a 16-hour roasted pork cheek served with grandma vegetables and cherry tomato wild rocket salad.

The occasion? Do you need one?

Well that night we were being very logical, celebrating for a proper reason and indulging in a good meal to celebrate a friend's birthday.

We even had a menu, just for her. The freshly baked bread that was served played an important role in the appetizers that came rolling out in huge portions to share.

The Grilled Octopus "Bruschetta" was chewy and the lemon gave it a nice refreshing zest to it.

The sauteed clams venetian style, got us all drooling with the generous amounts of white wine used to cook this simple dish. Coupled with the huge chunks of white bread, soaking up the sauce with the seafood essence on one hand, and the other hand scooping the huge clams up, what more can you ask for?

Just when you thought you need a break from the bread, the thinly shaved mixed selections of cold cuts including parma ham, salami and etc served with rock melon and pineapple, got us reaching for the bread again.

The pickles was at the extremely sour side and mainly left untouched, although after a piece, you do feel perked up and energized to charge at more food.

Almost hitting a roadblock, with the mains yet to come, we were impressed with the portions served. After all, it is meant to be fine dining no? Well Andrea and Carol wanted us to feel like we were having a nice homey italian meal, food more then enough to go around and lots of chit chatting with red wine to match.

So when the Duet of Pasta came, some put on a brave face as they knew the roast cheeks was tempting them while crackling in the oven.

The first of the two, home made hand cut black ink taglierini with cherry tomato and cuttle fish ragout. The tangy tomatoes was the dominant flavour without the evident paste to go with it. I found it refreshing before digging into the ravioli.

The crabmeat ravioli on the other hand was heavier in flavour with mascarpone cheese sauce. Topped with chives and keta caviar, although the crab meat did not really shine, i could only imagine what i would do with the sauce; more bread!

Of course, another photo to end the happy ending.

By the end of the meal, we were all happy and jolly, stuffed to the brim and had plenty more to take away which ended in my bagels the following day.

Definitely a place to hold a function, whether for a group of 4 or in our case 14.

Kudos to Carol for helping me out come up with a menu and getting everything sorted out magically.

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Refer to my first visit

My rating definitely stays at 4 stars out of 5 stars.

Did i mention that all the food was RM80 nett? Of course per pax lar.